Andor, generally, is great. A metatextually great thing about Andor is that it’s a great Star Wars product produced in the 2020s, which means that when they make a really shitty one it’s not possible for them to hide behind the idea that it’s just generally not possible to make good ones anymore. No. You could have simply made it Good, instead of Bad. But that’s not what you did. That’s not what you did
NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming
Some ok news for once. Seems HHS is backing off their most recent attempt at a national care ban for trans kids due to the massive legal hurdles it would have faced. This does not mean other ongoing efforts to target care providers and orgs like WPATH aren't still ongoing and still a major concern, but it is good to see that we won't have to fight this specific battle (a proposed and now discarded rule that would have attempted to deny Medicaid and Medicare funding and coverage at any hospital that provides gender affirming care for youth)
“Despite this being called a ‘final rule,’ we have time to fight back. Nothing will change overnight.”
IMPORTANT UPDATE
HHS has now finalized a much reduced version of the planned rule. The previous proposed rule would have denied funding to any hospital found to be advancing "gender ideology," and not just medicaid reimbursement for trans procedures but instead a total defunding of all Medicaid and Medicare payments, which would put any hospital that didn't comply out of business and would have had huge nationwide effects for trans care.
The current version is much narrower and meant to survive legal scruitiny: it only says that federal Medicaid and CHIP money will not cover gender affirming care for anyone under 19. Hospitals can still provide said care and keep their funding for other procedures, and there is no threat of funding being withdrawn over "gender ideology."
Still, what this rule would mean, if it goes into effect, would be that low-income families relying on Medicaid and CHIP would have to pay out of pocket for their trans children's care. The rule is slated to go into effect in October, although it will face legal challenges and the courts could hold this thing up for a while.
But, at the end of the day it is still sad news for trans kids and young adults reliant on Medicaid and CHIP, and of course is only the most recent effort in the ongoing right wing anti-trans hate campaign.
#not a fan of how they're trying to push the age of 'able to make decisions about own body's up a year...#I'm sure that won't ever continue getting higher and higher /s
So a little clarification: looking at the final rule, it bans Medicaid reimbursement for under 18s and CHIP for under 19s
tbh I have no idea how CHIP works but it is interesting that with Medicaid, which has its own whole web of laws, they had to back down from their stated goal of banning care under 19 and had to go with 18 instead
19 is still the number that was used in all the executive orders, and is definitely symptomatic of a wider trend of wanting to push that age up and up until we are all fucked, but here at least they had to back off in the case of Medicaid (but not CHIP!)
"what if someone regrets transitioning" if you are 18 or over in free country usa you can walk into any tattoo parlor and ask for a tattoo that will be on your body forever and ever and ever and they will give it to you with the understanding that if you dont like the result or you regret it later that's your fucking problem and not theirs
asexuals I love you very much but sometimes you will get hangups about very funny things. I made a "fuck marry kill" poll and dozens of people are asking how they're supposed to vote because they don't want to fuck anyone and are asking for alternatives for that category like playing video games or drinking tea instead. but killing is totally fine
I love that the modern-day tumblr post equivalent of chain emails only requires me to reblog a relatively pleasant image instead of forward an email to a bunch of my friends and family members to quell my raging anxiety.
I also love that I rarely see one of these that threatens bad things if you don't. (And when I do, I refuse to reblog them, even though that gives me anxiety, because I refuse to pass the anxiety on.)
Fuck those horrible chain emails. The birb is a great improvement.
i mean "posts about Black people" in a broad sense, that can mean anything from struggles to Black joy, and when you see the notes, most of the time it’s double digits, three if I'm being generous.
start being comfortable posting Black people's words in your blogs, the same way you'll reblog posts about transness, gayness, disability, because these specific topics can affect you
start actually giving a fuck about Black folks and reblogging our words is the barest minimum
Harry Potter is trending at #1 on tumblr so I thought I’d take the opportunity to say fuck JKR, fuck transphobes, fuck her stupid books, her theme park, her endless landfill fodder merch slop, and her fucking castle on a hill. Read another book yall!! Read another book!!!!!!!
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